Document Type
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BL
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Record Number
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877708
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Main Entry
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Counihan, Carole,1948-
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Title & Author
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The anthropology of food and body : : gender, meaning, and power /\ Carole M. Counihan.
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Publication Statement
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New York :: Routledge,, 1999.
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Page. NO
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viii, 256 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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ISBN
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0415921929
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: 0415921937
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: 9780415921923
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: 9780415921930
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0415921939
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-244) and index.
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Contents
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1. Food, Culture, and Gender -- 2. Bread as World: Food Habits and Social Relations in Modernizing Sardinia -- 3. Food, Power, and Female: Identity in Contemporary Florence -- 4. Food, Sex, and Reproduction: Penetration of Gender Boundaries -- 5. What Does It Mean to Be Fat, Thin, and Female? A Review Essay -- 6. An Anthropological View of Western Women's Prodigious Fasting: A Review Essay -- 7. Food Rules in the United States: Individualism, Control, and Hierarchy -- 8. Fantasy Food: Gender and Food Symbolism in Preschool Children's Made-Up Stories -- 9. Food as Tie and Rupture: Negotiating Intimacy and Autonomy in the Florentine Family -- 10. The Body as Voice of Desire and Connection in Florence, Italy -- 11. Body and Power in Women's Experiences of Reproduction in the United States.
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Abstract
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This book examines the way we understand our bodies, our genders, and ourselves through food. The author uses a cross-cultural approach to the study of food, in order to ask compelling questions about eating disorders, body dissatisfaction, bodily changes in reproduction and gender differences.
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Subject
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Food habits, Cross-cultural studies.
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Subject
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Food habits-- Italy.
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Food habits-- United States.
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Sex role, Cross-cultural studies.
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Women-- Italy-- Social conditions.
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Women-- United States-- Social conditions.
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Femmes-- États-Unis-- Conditions sociales.
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Femmes-- Italie-- Conditions sociales.
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Subject
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Habitudes alimentaires-- Études transculturelles.
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Habitudes alimentaires-- États-Unis.
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Habitudes alimentaires-- Italie.
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Rôle selon le sexe, Études transculturelles.
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Subject
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73.25 food and food preparation (ethnology)
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Ernährung
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Ernährungsgewohnheit
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Femmes-- États-Unis-- Conditions sociales.
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Femmes-- Italie-- Conditions sociales.
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Food habits.
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Frau
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Geschlechterrolle
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Habitudes alimentaires-- Études transculturelles.
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Habitudes alimentaires-- Etats-Unies-- Aspect anthropologique.
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Habitudes alimentaires-- Italie-- Anthropologie.
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Kulturvergleich
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Sex role.
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Soziale Situation
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Women-- Social conditions.
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Frau.
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Levensmiddelen.
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Sekserol.
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Voedingsgewoonten.
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Vrouwen.
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Italien
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Italy.
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United States.
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USA
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USA.
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Dewey Classification
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394.1
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LC Classification
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GT2850.C68 1999
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NLM classification
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73.25bcl
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LC 17000rvk
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LC 17610rvk
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MS 2850rvk
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MS 5560rvk
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